Van Ijzendoorn and Kroonenburg meta analysis

carried out a meta analysis (analysing other peoples results and drawing conclusions from it) of 32 studies of the strange situation in 8 countries.

results

the amount of attachment types were mostly consistent in each country as all have the highest % of attachments as type b and most have the lowest % as type c. However countries like Japna and Israel have a higher % of type c attachments than type a attachments

In germany more children are type a because of the way their parents bring them up. They encorage independence so they withdrw loving attention and often ignore crys…